Improvement in guano-distributers



BR. STEDMAN.

Guano Distributer. No. 107,975. 1 Patented Oct. 4, 1870.

n1)W1N R. sTnn'M-AN,oEsPA-RTA, GEORGIA,-

Letters Patent No. 107,975, dated October 4, 187i).

A IMPROVEMENT m GUANO-DISTRIB'UTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern r Beit known that LEDwrN R. STEDMAN, of Sparta, n thecounty of Hancock and State of Georgia, have invented a new and, improved Hand Guano-Distribnter; and Ifdo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exaetdescriptiou thereof, which \vil l'jeuahle others skilled'in theart toma'ke and use the "same; reference being had-to the accompanying. drawing forming part of this. specification.

This invention'i'elates tojmprcv'ementsin apparatus for'soiving guano, plaster,-and other-like substances, V v

' the other side. up, being first drawn out.-,

in the rows or drills in which the seed-ls planted.

It'eonsists in a small tin or other sheet-metalcup,- with a short socketed-or other suitable .handle'ior the reception of a longer wooden one, and having a hole at the apex of the conical bottom overwhich works a slide for regulating the dischargejsaid' slidebei'ng held by a pin, or it may heady other fiistening, engaging it at certain ire-arranged points; b'y -which it holds the slide at certain graduated positions" for discharging the required quantities per. acre.

Figure 1 'is a sectionalelevation of my improved distrihnter, and I 7 Figure 2 is aside elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts; i W41 A is the tin or other yessel, which may be eylindricalorof any other form, and it has a conical, .or i't may be any other pointed bottom, B,

G is the short 's'ooketed handle or shank.

D is a wood or other handle fitted thereto.

E is the opening at the bottom. Said-*opening isfl elongated in-one side, firefei'ably toward the handle.

ways G, on the outside of the conical handle, tomoveback and forth are the opening for varying the same.

'Tlhis slide has" one or more rowsof holes, H 11", for the pin I, fitted towork up and down theside of the where required, said holes beinggraduated to hold the slide so that the opening "may have difierent capaci-tiesfor discharging difl'erent amounts per acre, the row; H being-adapted for gauging, say, from. fifty .ponn'dsper acre upward 'by one hundred pounds, and the row "H' from onevhundred pounds up in 'the same measure. I j When the row H is to he used, the slide is turned with-the operaton wholliolds the distribut'er over the :drill in which the guano is to bedropped, enemie when it is filled again, and so on.

Itavill be seen that this distributor may be con structed very cheaply; also, that besides using it hy hand, as above stated, it may be attached to a truck, and the guano poured into it. 4

Having thus deseribedmy. invention, 1 I claim as newand desire tosecure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, the improved ,guano or plaster-distributer,constructed and arranged substantially as herein described. v

The above specification of myinveution signed by me this 22d day of August, 1870.

" EDWIN R. STEDMAN.

Witnesses 7 a -MA EPL ALEX. F. RoBERTs.

vessel =A, to passthroughtheholes and hold-the slide This distrihutenisfilled by dipping into the stock: j contained in a bag or "larger vessel, and carried-along along the same until the dist-ributer becomes 

